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As a suggestion, why not have it going on over the summer? Just a handful of students present for a handful of classes, or having decided to stay in town instead of going home during the summer break?

The townies are happy because they can finally get downtown. Maybe now they can hit that diner that's always thronged with students during the fall and spring semesters? Fourth of July fireworks, art festivals, farmer markets, yard sales. Who knows what bit of elderich horror one might find in a pile of old books? Say an old diary that used to belong to a long dead professor?

Perhaps the gang are all members of a paranormal club - ghost hunting and the like?

The college is an old one, there are actual graves on campus where various members of the faculty were buried. Perhaps a few stories of strange things going on? Like rumors of strange beings in the stacks of the library at night? Or why the steam tunnels are all locked up and alarmed? Perhaps a few empty houses with hidden bunkers under them? Or a network of odd underground tunnels leading to hidden speakeasies long abandoned - or so you thought?

And let's not forget frats and secret societies.


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Ngl, I'm really into this idea :) I've even got a character concept brewing at the back of my head.